What’s more American than apple pie and baseball? A Bowie knife, of course. The Bowie knife was made famous on September 19, 1827, during an epic knife and gun fight that followed a formal duel on a ...

It’s 1827. Jim Bowie, a frontiersman, illegal slave trader, and real-estate scammer, is in a fight to the death on an island in the Mississippi River. Several of his rivals have attacked him with cane ...

Texas historians have written volumes about Jim Bowie, who died at the Alamo, but what people remember most about him is a big hunting blade he carried — a weapon known in history simply as the Bowie ...

It’s a big and impractical knife by today’s standards, but at one point, the Bowie was America’s quintessential outdoor knife. Arguably the first standardized knife design, the original Bowie was ...

The old knife with the scratched blade and the cracked wooden handle stared down the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto, but a family feud proved too much for it. The Bowie knife that Gen. Sam ...

WACO, Texas (AP) — As a fearsome weapon, the Bowie knife recently donated to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum speaks for itself. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports it is 17 inches long, with a ...